Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) was an American author of carefully researched historical novels. Roberts wrote novels about Maine or characters from Maine including:

  • Northwest Passage French and Indian War
  • Arundel
  • The Lively Lady
  • Rabble in Arms American Revolution
  • Captain Caution
  • Oliver Wiswell* American Revolution from the loyalist perspective

Roberts described his life in detail in his autobiography I Wanted to Write.

See also

  • "Kenneth Roberts," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 9, Novelists 1910-1945 (1981).
  • Janet Harris, A Century of American History in Fiction: Kenneth Roberts' Novels, 1976.